History

The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
Hardback
A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Paperback
From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.

Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
Paperback
The first biography of Alaric to appear in English tells the history of the fourth-and fifth-century Roman Empire through the life of the Goth who attacked it.

Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
Hardback
In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on...

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
Hardback
How Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race.


